Sorry I missed all this chaos, I got home around 9:00PM tonight, called you but couldn't find you. i have built kick ass systems in the past, but I've learned that for what I do, word processing, gaming (COD2,COD4 and COD5) a quad-core AMD processor, a good video card (nvidia GTX 650 with at least 2GB of memory), and 16GB of memory are more than enough. I have recently bought a SSD hard drive and upgraded my psu to a 750watt. The hd upgrade makes a huge difference, the computer runs pretty smoothly and I don't have any heat or noise issues. I'm upgrading anyways in a few months and will build an Intel I7 system. Not that it will make me a "better gamer", but at least I will be able to brag about it.